Re: S47 Ep10 Spoilers and Comments (11/20/2024)

On 11/21/2024 8:58 AM, shawn wrote:

On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:54:21 -0700, Brian Smith
<dcg_brian@hotmail.com> wrote:
 

On 11/20/2024 1:51 PM, Brian Smith wrote:

Tonight's episode is titled "Loyal to the Soil." The sneak peeks for
this episode are very interesting. In one of them, Andy's given what
might be the most blatant winner's edit ever. It's so over the top that
I can only come to two possible conclusions: 1) he dominates the rest of
the season and wins in a landslide or 2) the show is setting him up for
a dramatic downfall and ouster.
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Gen does not come across well in the sneak peeks. She did not factor in
how badly Teeny would take Sol's boot and now feels guilty. It's the
first time we've seen Gen let her emotions get to her.
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And there's going to be a new (different?) type of rice negotiation.
Wonder if this will tie in to Rachel's earlier attempt to take rice
during an IC?

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This was a great episode IMO. I had no idea who was going home until the
votes were read.
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 Which is good but it wasn't because we were being misled by the
editing. The players were generally not sure who should go.
 

Teeny and Gen got a lot of story time tonight. I had no idea that Teeny
was so emotionally attached to Sol. She also seemed to be emotionally
attached to Gen which surprised me. She was clearly hurt by Gen
orchestrating Sol's boot and it looked like she was ready seek revenge.
The scene where her bag caught on fire and she talked about her identity
struggles was well done.

 I almost thought that was a symbol of Teeny's game going up in flames.

Alternatively, it could represent Teeny as the Phoenix rising from the ashes to essentially re-start her game.

 

Tonight was the first time since early on in the season where Gen did
not come across as being in control of things. She miscalculated big
time on taking out Sol. She put a huge target on herself with that move.
Why was taking Sol out so important to her? I don't recall Sol saying he
wanted to get rid of her.

 Only thing I can think of is if she knew that Sue wanted her out and
Sue was close to Sol, but I'm not sure she knew that.
 

Reward Challenge
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Another random draw to split the players into three teams of three
people each. This ended up being pretty lopsided as one team was Sue,
Teeny, and Gen. I thought Kyle's team cheated. Did Jeff not say they had
to use their heads to move the ball through the sand? Sam was using his
shoulders 90%+ of the time and then Kyle and Rachel copied him. No
wonder they won so easily and got to go to The Sanctuary for some food.

 If Jeff didn't think they should do that he would have called it out.
I think his main point was not to use your arms or hands to move the
ball.
 

That was also my impression, though he did specifically say the words "using only your head".  But when I watched it back, it appeared that people using their shoulder - especially Kyle, who used the hack before anyone else - had the ball touching the side of their heads, so I guess that made it legal.

The Sanctuary
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We got some good game talk at the Sanctuary. Sam pitched for Gabe to be
the target and they quickly settled on Gen as the backup. Sam and Rachel
had a chance to talk alone and it sounds like they had it out. Rachel
told us that she basically doesn't trust Sam because he keeps screwing
her over.

  Good for her as she's learning. Should have learned that with the
first time he messed with her game but at least she's had the time to
learn not to trust him.
 

Immunity Challenge
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After explaining the challenge to them, Jeff says it's time for them to
finally get some rice but that they have to strike a deal with him in
order to get it. He says he wants four of them to volunteer to sit out
of the challenge. Someone asks if he'll accept three. He says no.
Caroline asks if he'll give them the bag of rice if two people give up
their SITDs. Jeff says no. Kyle says "what about if we all give up our
Shots in the Dark?" Jeff says okay. Not everyone is on board at first
but after Gabe convinces Sam to give up his SITD it's a done deal. Jeff
is surprised. I thought it was a stupid move. If they made it to Day 18
with no rice what's another eight days?

 It definitely felt like Sam only did it because of the peer pressure.
As others have suggested it likely wasn't to be part of the tribe but
fear that if he was the reason they didn't get rice then he would end
up being the target for the next TC.
 

Once again, the challenge came down to Sue vs. Kyle with Kyle winning
his fourth immunity. IIRC, Jeff said the record is five. According to
Mike Bloom, Kyle's only lost three challenges the entire season.

 Which means he is likely the next to go as soon as he loses a
challenge.
 

Back at Camp
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At first it looked like Gabe would be the target but people quickly
started having other priorities. Rachel wanted to go after Gen and take
out Gabe later. Teeny agreed.
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Andy at one point went to Sue and said he wants to work with her and go
to the end with her. Is there anyone Andy who has not had this talk
with? And why are these people not comparing notes? Andy also told Sue
that Kyle refers to her and Caroline as Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb.
This led to a lot of bad words from Sue that had to be censored.

 Maybe no one takes Andy seriously. After all every time we've seen
someone making deals with everyone the players end comparing notes and
distrusting the person, but those people were also seen as real
players. I don't know that people see Andy that way.
 

A pivotal scene was when Caroline told Andy she wanted to take out Gabe
and that Sue would never go for it. She seemed worried even mentioning this.
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Tribal Council
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This was well-edited tonight. Gen appeared to be very concerned and just
about resigned that she would be going home. Lots of good facial
expressions from her that were helped out by the cold rain during TC.

 Yeah, she clearly knew she was considered a target for tonight. After
all she said no one was talking with her during the day which is
always a bad sign.
 

Gabe, on the other hand, didn't seem to be all that concerned. I thought
Gen was a goner until Kyle went to vote.

 Well, Gabe was in the opposite situation from Gen. He seemed to be in
every conversation and so probably felt in relative control of the
situation.
 

After they showed him writing a
"G," I could tell the next letter was going to be an "a" by the position
of his hand. That had me thinking Gen might have a shot to stay. In the
end, the vote was 7–2 with Gabe and Sue voting to boot Gen. Now we need
to wait and see if Sue was blindsided and if she was, how mad is she
going to be at Caroline. After what just happened to Gen, I hope
Caroline was smart enough to give Sue a heads up before the vote.

 

When Gabe left, did he say to Caroline "So you've got a little snake in
you, huh?" I thought it was her but then someone asked Kyle if Gabe
called him a snake.

 Yes, I thought he was talking to Caroline. After all Kyle voting Gabe
out wouldn't be a surprise to Gabe, but Caroline might be.

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I had to laugh when Gabe said to Jeff "I'll be back." Jeff should have
said to him, "Gabe, you're not Season 50 material!"

 Well, Gabe will be back for every TC going forward this season. ;)
 

At the very end of TC they put up a black screen with a tribute to Barb,
the biggest Survivor fan ever.
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Next Episode
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Looks like more Andy escapades.

 At some point either Andy is getting a blind side or he is winning the
entire game. ;)